Free AI events in San Diego

You don't have to spend a dollar to plug into San Diego's AI scene. Every free AI event in the city, gathered in one place and verified daily: meetups, workshops, hackathons, and talks with no ticket price.

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5:00 PM – 8:30 PM PDT

Platform Engineering & AI: San Diego

by Intuit Open Source Meetup

Intuit Open Source Meetup hosts a San Diego evening of platform-engineering and AI discussions, developer talks, demonstrations and networking for people working with open-source technology.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT

Retrieval vs Inference

Venture X San Diegoby San Diego Software Engineers

Technical San Diego Software Engineers talk on when strong retrieval instructions and the right information can solve a problem without relying on more model inference.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Oct

Wed

8:00 AM – 8:00 PM PDT

Solix AI Hackathon

UC San Diego Atkinson Hall, Qualcomm Instituteby Solix Technologies, Inc.

Three-day enterprise AI hackathon at UC San Diego with tracks in data and AI, AI safety and security, pharma, finance, healthcare and social good.

HackathonFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchersStudents

Nov

Mon

4:30 PM – 8:00 PM PST

San Diego Data Foundations Meetup

Intuit Incby Raj Parameswaran

San Diego practitioner meetup hosted by Intuit on the data platforms, semantic layers and reliable foundations that AI products depend on. The agenda is still being finalized, but registration is open.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Nov

Thu

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PST

Claude Code Users Group: November Monthly Meeting

University of San Diego Loma Hallby Claude Code Users Group

Monthly San Diego session at the University of San Diego working through agentic coding practice: Claude Code fundamentals, the Claude API, and building with the Model Context Protocol.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers